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Emily

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
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If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met the impossibly irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home. She'd never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory's past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean. And she would never have been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie....

©1975 Jilly Cooper (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Funny Highlander

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"The funniest and sharpest writer there is." (Jenny Colgan)
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dreadful intonation reading this story. Words mispronounced and sentences read with the wrong manner

Awful Narration.

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This is without doubt the worst narration of an audio book I’ve experienced. Flat monotone. Totally ignores punctuation, including full stops, which completely alters the meaning of sentences sometimes nonsensically. (particularly galling given Jilly Coopers witty style) Had the same feel as a primary age child reading out something in assembly. Shame as it’s a great favourite for many Jilly fans.

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What did I like? Not very much. Certainly not the incestuous, rude, abusive, woman-attacking, bad-tempered “hero”. How times have changed - I read this book when it first came out and accepted him as absolutely fine. Now - and never mind the smoking, dangerous driving, excess drinking and general endangerment to anyone within half a mile of the “hero” - it’s just unbelievable anyone ever thought this was a blueprint for romance.

Meanwhile our heroine, who is constantly looking for any man to look after her, moons about after Rory, why is a mystery. She is merely a bystander in her life, waiting for different people - mainly men - to wash over her and toss her in a new direction. Even our sub-hero, Finn the doctor, is pretty dreadful.

And lastly - did we really wear those clothes and feel that hair washing was something to record? Oh the 1970s!

I prefer not to criticise narration, but some of the pronunciations are very strange.

Thus the memories of youth…

Terribly outdated story

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It was written back in 70s I think. I found Emily a bit of a sop. The characters weren’t very likeable but was it was easy to listen to though the accents were hilarious. But sometimes it’s just good to have a story that you don’t have to invest too much concentration on

Terrible narration it was so bad it was funny

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Always loved this story spoilt by the stupid accents , Rory's voice totally destroyed any idea of him being a hunk and let's not go there with Finns voice 😞

Jilly Cooper Emily

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